A Nocturnal Scene
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Title
A Nocturnal Scene
Subject
Cadet life
Creator
[Unknown]
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
May, 1883
Contributor
Maegan Stebbins, Dan Whitley
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Short story
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.5 (May 1883), p.4
Coverage
Blacksburg
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A NOCTURNAL SCENE.
A few evenings since long after the King of day had buried his burning face behind the Hesperian hills, and all nature seemed to be locked in the quiet embrace of Morpheus, and gentle Luna was stealing from behind the Oriental hills, and wending her way through the reckless realms of ether, in queenly majesty to guide the benighted traveler to his place of rest.
Oh! it was a lovely scene and someone who is an admirer of Nature’s beauties thought he would take a little stroll through the quiet streets of our little town. Little thinking that there were others in our town who, like himself, love to muse on the unparallel [sic] beauties of a midnight scene. And while standing on terra firma, and his mind entangled in the net-work of stars, he was aroused from his reverie when the gentle zephyrs bore to his ears, the words so well known to him, “my darling I must bid you good-night, one more kiss before I go." Extricating himself from the net-work of the heavenly bodies, he gained his equiliberum [sic] on earth at a single bound just in time to see the one to whom these words were addressed, impress the solicited kiss, and the solicitor leave with a face so bright that it would have made first class head light on a steam-boat.
Now you can easily imagine how soon this cadet's (for it was a cadet who saw this Nocturnal scene) thoughts ran back to the time when he had to say, “My little darling is it not sad that fate should separate us. But to Blacksburg I must go, just one more kiss before I go.” Now fair lady do not blush because you were seen when you so fondly and affectionately impressed that kiss, for the poor cadet who could only stand and look on, has in times gone by solicited and received many equally as sweet.
A few evenings since long after the King of day had buried his burning face behind the Hesperian hills, and all nature seemed to be locked in the quiet embrace of Morpheus, and gentle Luna was stealing from behind the Oriental hills, and wending her way through the reckless realms of ether, in queenly majesty to guide the benighted traveler to his place of rest.
Oh! it was a lovely scene and someone who is an admirer of Nature’s beauties thought he would take a little stroll through the quiet streets of our little town. Little thinking that there were others in our town who, like himself, love to muse on the unparallel [sic] beauties of a midnight scene. And while standing on terra firma, and his mind entangled in the net-work of stars, he was aroused from his reverie when the gentle zephyrs bore to his ears, the words so well known to him, “my darling I must bid you good-night, one more kiss before I go." Extricating himself from the net-work of the heavenly bodies, he gained his equiliberum [sic] on earth at a single bound just in time to see the one to whom these words were addressed, impress the solicited kiss, and the solicitor leave with a face so bright that it would have made first class head light on a steam-boat.
Now you can easily imagine how soon this cadet's (for it was a cadet who saw this Nocturnal scene) thoughts ran back to the time when he had to say, “My little darling is it not sad that fate should separate us. But to Blacksburg I must go, just one more kiss before I go.” Now fair lady do not blush because you were seen when you so fondly and affectionately impressed that kiss, for the poor cadet who could only stand and look on, has in times gone by solicited and received many equally as sweet.
